Nancy Brown

Nancy G. Brown is a General Partner at Oak HC/FT, a venture and growth equity firm founded in 2014 that invests exclusively in healthcare and fintech. She joined the firm at its inception in 2014 and focuses on early-stage venture and growth equity opportunities in healthcare, bringing more than two and a half decades of healthcare information-technology operating experience to her investing role.

Before becoming an investor, Brown spent her career as an operator across several early-stage healthcare companies — two of which were acquired by McKesson and a third that went public. Immediately prior to Oak HC/FT, she was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at McKesson Corporation Technology Solutions. She joined McKesson through its 2012 acquisition of MedVentive, where she had served as Chief Growth Officer. Earlier in her career she was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and of Clinical Service at athenahealth, where she led development of athenaClinicals and ran corporate development. Her earlier roles include co-founding Abaton.com and serving as a Senior Vice President at Harvard Community Health Plan.

Brown earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Northeastern University. She is a frequent voice in digital-health circles, appearing on podcasts such as The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health, Slice of Healthcare, The Other 80, and Breaking Health, and as a speaker at events including ViVE and Aspen Ideas.

• Invests across stages — from seed to growth — in technology-enabled healthcare services that deliver measurable clinical and financial impact.
• Favors companies that build new healthcare models rather than trying to integrate into or change existing systems — a thesis reflected in Oak HC/FT bets like Devoted Health and Imagine Pediatrics.
• Strong interest in subpopulation management — tailored solutions for specific, often complex, patient groups that optimize the cost-quality equation.
• Believes in meeting patients where they are, through virtualization, onsite clinics, and retail care — a care-delivery thesis she says she has developed over many years.
• Emphasizes deep operational partnership with founders: go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, and team building, grounded in honest, sustained relationships.